Intersil Executive Joins Scintera as New CEO

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scintera Networks, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductors for wireless communications, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Davin Lee chief executive officer and Board member, effective immediately.

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Mr. Lee brings broad semiconductor experience and has successfully scaled several major businesses. Scintera's prior CEO, Art Reidel, will remain on Scintera's Board of Directors.

"Art has built an outstanding team that is delivering groundbreaking RF semiconductor products," said Daniel Artusi, Scintera Board member. "The company is ready to take on a new set of growth opportunities, and Davin's track record as a successful semiconductor executive with a strong customer focus makes him an excellent choice to take the company to the next level."

"Three short years after divesting its optical business and relaunching the company in the RF market, Scintera has successfully delivered its first products for wireless infrastructure and is shipping in volume to a wide range of customers and geographies," said Art Reidel, former chief executive officer of Scintera. "I am confident Davin will continue to build on this success and lead Scintera to become a major semiconductor company."

"Scintera has achieved impressive results with its RF PA linearization products based on its unique programmable analog signal processing technology," said Davin Lee. "I am excited to join such a talented team, and I look forward to helping the company achieve substantial growth by expanding its customer relationships in existing markets and bringing Scintera products into important new markets."

Mr. Lee was the vice president and general manager of Intersil's Consumer Power Products group, which markets high-performance power solutions for the consumer electronics market. Previously, Mr. Lee was vice president and general manager of the Industrial and Communications Products group and served two years as vice president of Intersil's General Purpose Power Products group. He joined Intersil after the acquisition of Xicor, Inc., where he served as vice president of marketing.

Mr. Lee holds a BSEE degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

About Scintera

Scintera provides high performance, compact and low-power semiconductor solutions for complex RF signal processing problems. The company's novel programmable mixed-signal processing engine preserves the advantages of DSP, while moving the carrier-frequency processing to the highly efficient analog domain.  Scintera's first products in this family, RFPAL, provide adaptive pre-distortion for linearizing RF power amplifiers. RFPAL solutions have enabled customers in the wireless infrastructure and digital terrestrial broadcast markets to increase efficiency and reduce costs in existing applications, and are uniquely enabling novel high performance, cost sensitive and very compact 4G cellular systems. Scintera is privately held and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.  For further information, please visit www.scintera.com.

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